Trump’s trial isn’t hurting his swing state leads

Published April 24, 2024 11:49am ET



As predicted a year ago, the progressive legal movement’s breakneck race to try Donald Trump in criminal court as soon as he locked up the Republican presidential nomination, with no small help from said political prosecutions, has invited a deluge of dumbed down and dismal media coverage.

Although distractions spanning from Ukraine and Gaza to the antisemitic riots on college campuses have drowned out much of the press’s laser focus on a 17-year-old one-night stand, the National Enquirer, and convicted liar Michael Cohen, still, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s crusade against the former president has accomplished its real purpose: diverting media attention away from the disaster that is Joe Biden’s America and toward the disaster that is Trump’s personal life.

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